2008-02-17 18:33:17 - Using cardboard boxes, www.keeptidy.com enables businesses, warehouses and offices to recycle economically.

Business offices have an alternative to expensive plastic extrusion recycle containers. These new cardboard recycle boxes cost a fraction of their plastic counterparts. Cardboard boxes are 1/10th the cost of plastic recycle containers. In addition, they have better graphics which deter contamination and stimulate participation. With such a discrepancy in price, it doesn't matter if they have to be replaced

more often than their plastic counterparts. The finances still favor their use.

For example, a plastic recycle container costs about $150. A comparable cardboard recycle box with much better graphics costs $7.87. If you keep the cardboard boxes inside a building, protected with liners, they will last from 6 months to a year. So even if you have to replace it a year later, now you have spent $15.74. This still beats the cost of plastic by a long shot! And the keeptidy.com boxes have much better graphics which prevent contamination. And in the end, cardboard boxes can be recycled whereas the plastic containers go to the landfill.

And for the first time, they come in Spanish and English for south Florida and Mexican border markets.

Manufactured by PRIDE Enterprises of Florida, this manufacturing arm of the State of Florida corrections system is making recycling easier and less expensive.

Keeptidy.com is a national outlet for PRIDE Enterprises. The offices are located in Tallahassee, Florida.